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† ˈpedware Obs.
[Origin obscure.
Perh. from ped, basket, though this hardly accounts for the sense, or perh. an error in Googe for podware, copied by Worlidge and Phillips; but podware is itself of doubtful history, since pod = cod has not been found till about a century later than podware and pedware.]
Pulse; pease or beans: cf. codware1 1, podware.
1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. 24 Fruites of the earth..that beareth Coddes, as all kinde of Pulse, or pedware. Ibid. 25 If after two seasons of Corne, you sowe Pulse or Pedware, the barrenner ground must rest three yeeres. Ibid. 26 Wheate, Barley, Pedware. 1669Worlidge Syst. Agric. (1681) 329 Pedware, Pulse. 1706Phillips, Pedware, a Country-word for Pulse, as Pease, Beans, etc. |